See, long ago and far away, there was this US battleship, the USS Maine. And there was this big media mogul, William Randolph Hearst - newspaperman. The Maine blew up down in Cuba, Hearst ginned up a lot of news - next thing you know - like magic, The Spanish-American War.
Hearst was the father of yellow journalism, the manufacturing of hyperbolic, sensationaized news, or what we call today, CNN.
“Illustrator Frederic Remington, sent by Hearst to Cuba to cover the Cuban War of Independence, cabled Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba. Hearst, in this canard, is said to have responded, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”